NEW DELHI: An Indian farmer’s battle for proper compensation for land seized to build a railway reached an unexpected conclusion this week when a court awarded him a train. Sampuran Singh has been fighting for the money since 2015, when he went to court to argue that Indian Railways had underpaid him for a piece of land in the northern state... Read more »

Former CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry addresses a press conference in Islamabad on Friday. PHOTO: EXPRESS ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission formed by former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry established that former Pakistani ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani had written the illegal memo at the heart of the Memogate scandal. “The federal government should file an application for an expedited hearing... Read more »

KARACHI: Samsung has released the 2017 model of its Galaxy-A series trio and we got our hands on the largest of them, the A7, for review and here’s what we think about the device. Before we proceed any further, here are some of the major specifications of the phone: the Samsung Galaxy A7 has a 5.7” FHD Super Amoled Display and... Read more »

ISLAMABAD: While calling the agreement on the reestablishment of military courts “unfortunate”, Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani admonished the government for not taking steps to reform the overall criminal justice system as it had promised two years back, when special military courts were set-up for the first time. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) stalwart said entire development made him feel despondent, explaining that... Read more »

KARACHI: I still have work to do. These were the last words Muhammad Javaid said to his colleagues from The Express Tribune when they went to visit him on his deathbed. He was just 53 when he died in Rawalpindi on Thursday. He had spent the last few years fighting cancer while still doing his best to give the paper his... Read more »

PHOTO:AFP PARIS: Staccato lyrics may be no match for Bashar Al Assad’s military firepower but two brothers who fled to Paris from Syria are now performing as ‘Refugees of Rap’ – and are finding it to be a liberating experience. Having grown up officially stateless in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, Yaser and Mohamed Jamous rap in Arabic about the war they... Read more »

Head of Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, another Indian cleric go missing in Pakistan. PHOTO: ANI The Pakistan Foreign Office on Thursday confirmed that a request had been received from India seeking assistance in the recovery of two clerics. Foreign Office spokesperson, Nafees Zakaria, said the request had been received and forwarded to concerned authorities, who are pursuing the matter. Indian Muslim... Read more »

PHOTO: FILE WASHINGTON: World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions are indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution in Southeast Asia, a watchdog group charged in a report Friday. By investing in banks and other so-called financial intermediaries, World Bank funds can increase poverty, social strife and promote projects which hasten climate change, according to a report by Inclusive Development International (IDI).... Read more »

Pakistan and India are set to resume stalled water-sharing talks later this month under a 1960 treaty that the Indian prime minister had threatened to scrap blaming Islamabad of promoting terrorism in the region. Late last year, Narendra Modi had threatened to scrap the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in an attempt to ratchet up pressure on Pakistan after accusing the... Read more »

Yet another attempt is under way to resolve some of the difficulties that beset the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The British on March 15 hosted a trilateral moot in London attended by the PM’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, the Afghan National Security Adviser, Haneef Atmar, and the UK National Security Adviser, Mark Lyall-Grant. All three are ‘old... Read more »